[TenTec] Horizontal loop for 80m

Tommy aldermant at alltel.net
Fri Jun 3 21:15:05 EDT 2005


I'm pretty fortunate in that my retirement QTH is on some 14 acres. The
'problem' is that most of the trees are too tall as I understand that
horizontal loops should be at about 35-40' in height. I also don't have any
strong commercial stations locally, such as N4LQ and others have to contend
with. I just have this hunch that a big loop would play very good with my
Omni 6 Plus.

One antenna I did find that worked great with the Plus is a 2-element EDZ
20m yagi...very narrow bandwidth but a little over 14 dBi gain! Running
barefoot on 20m provided surprisingly good results.

Tommy

W4BQF

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Able2fly at aol.com
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:59 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Horizontal loop for 80m


In a message dated 6/3/2005 7:26:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
aldermant at alltel.net writes:

>Would be interested in why your
thinking about using  multi-turns.

Thanks.

Tommy

W4BQF
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I'd love to go with a full sized loop but haven't the real estate for it,  I

do have 3 tall trees out back that form an equilateral triangle with  30-40
ft
legs and would have to use them for support...

Bill  K3UJ





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